i) Information futureproofing: CSIC is developing strategies for critical information to remain available throughout the whole life cycle of infrastructure.

ii) Infrastructure futureproofing: this encompasses the ability of infrastructure to be resilient to unexpected or uncontrollable events (e.g. those associated with climate change) and also the ability to adapt to required changes in structure and/or operations of the infrastructure in the future (e.g. expansion of capacity, change in usage mode or volumes).

CSIC conducted two workshops around this theme in 2014.

The first Infrastructure Futureproofing Workshop was held at the Institute for Manufacturing (IfM) in Cambridge on 23rd January 2014. This brought together people involved in infrastructure development, management and ownership with expertise in aspects of futureproofing.

The second Infrastructure Futureproofing Workshop was held in Cambridge on 2nd April 2014. It brought together construction engineers, asset managers, and facilities managers to discuss current practices and how futureproofing might be best used within them.

Infrastructure futureproofing is “the process of making provision for future developments, needs or events that impact on particular infrastructure through its current planning, design, construction or asset management processes (McFarlane et al 2014)”.

Information futureproofing is “the process to ensure that required information is retrievable (reusable) throughout the whole lifecycle of infrastructure assets or product service systems when needed. The key characteristics of information futureproofing may include but not limited to representability, retrievability, reusability and accessibility (Masood et al 2013)”.

Asset management

"Our aim is to put futureproofing on the agenda for every new build and for it to be embedded in asset management practices for existing infrastructure"

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